Roughing It

Fair, the word brings back a lot of memories for me as well as many past 4-H and FFA members.

Fair is that special time of year when it seems to be all hurry up and wait for parents as well as all the kids. This is my first year of being a parent of a 4-Her, and now I totally understand how my parents must have felt.

I remember stories my dad used to tell us about how he and his brother and sister would pack up and head to town for fair. For those of you who don’t know my family or me, I am from Laramie Wyo. I grew up there and that’s where I spent most of my life. I spent many years...